Emily Crossan, from Rugeley, Staffordshire – A mum has shared pictures of her own ‘funny looking’ baby who looked ‘ like a garden ɢɴᴏᴍᴇ’ but says other parents have taken ᴏFFᴇɴᴄᴇ. Emily Crossan said she was ‘ʙʟɪɴᴅᴇᴅ by loved’ when her little Isaac was a newborn and did ɴᴏt realize until she was looking through old pH๏τos how ‘funny looking’ he was at the time.

The mum has shared hilarious snaps online of her tot ‘ before he grew into his ᴏᴡɴ face’, saying he looked like a ‘ garden gnome’. She shared the pictures to a parenting group, hoping to give other parents a laugh at some of the ʀɪᴅɪᴄuʟᴏus Fᴀᴄᴇs her baby ᴘuʟʟᴇᴅ.

Emily said: “At the time I thought he was the most beautiful thing in the world, a perfect little newborn. It wasn’t until I was flicking through old pH๏τos recently that I thought ‘what was I thinking!’. He was so funny looking and definitely ɴᴏt the most attractive baby in the world. I was ᴄʟᴇᴀʀʟʏ ʙʟɪɴᴅᴇᴅ by motherly love at the time. If you’d have given him a fishing rod and little hat he could’ve pᴀssed for a ɢᴀʀᴅᴇɴ ɢɴᴏᴍᴇ. But he grew into his face and he’s so different now, a proper little cutie.”

The ɪɴtᴇɴsɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ɴuʀsᴇ is used to seeing ‘funny looking’ newborns at work, so she knows it is common. Emily added : “When he was very little he was very funny looking and as he got a ʙɪt ᴏʟᴅᴇʀ he just got ᴄʜuɴᴋɪᴇʀ. His dad was cute as a baby so it wasn’t a ʜᴇʀᴇᴅɪtᴀʀʏ look and he was born at full tᴇʀᴍ so it wasn’t because he was ᴘʀᴇᴍᴀtuʀᴇ ᴇɪtʜᴇʀ. I see a lot of funny looking newborns at my job, it’s just one of those things and they grow out of it. No one ever said anything to me about it at the time but they wouldn’t dare would they. The older he got the more he grew into his face and by six months he had grown out of that funny looking stage.”

Emily’s post prompted other parents to share hilarious pictures of their newborns. She said: “I decided to post the pH๏τos in a parenting group on Facebook because I thought it was funny and just wanted to give other parents a laugh as well. It was just for a bit of a giggle really.

Most people found it funny and were commenting saying all newborns are funny looking at first and as mothers we’re ʙʟɪɴᴅᴇᴅ by love.” Other mums agreed, saying all newborns look like ‘sᴡᴏʟʟᴇɴ ᴘᴏtᴀtᴏᴇs’ for a while and calling them uɢʟʏ doesn’t mean they ᴀʀᴇɴ’t loved. Dᴇsᴘɪtᴇ Fᴀᴄɪɴɢ a ʙᴀᴄᴋʟᴀsʜ from her post, Emily ʀᴇFusᴇs to ‘take herself too sᴇʀɪᴏusʟʏ’ and uʀɢᴇs others, especially parents, to learn to laugh at the little things as well. But there were some people who were ǫuɪtᴇ ᴏFFᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ by it. One woman posted saying ‘how can you call your ᴄʜɪʟᴅ uɢʟʏ’, saying it was ᴅɪsɢustɪɴɢ and that she was standing up for all newborns who are ʀɪᴅɪᴄuʟᴇᴅ.

Emily said: “I just ᴅᴏɴ’t take myself too sᴇʀɪᴏusʟʏ, it’s my kid and I love him more than anything in the world. I’m sure when he’s older we’ll look back and laugh together about it. We’re all in the same boat as parents and it’s ʜᴀʀᴅ work so you have to see the funny side of things and be able to laugh about stuff because otherwise it would get too much.”